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25 <p>This page documents all the relevant standards that the
26 Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions.</p>
28 <p>In addition to the information listed below, the following resources
29 should be consulted:</p>
33 <a href="http://purl.org/NET/http-errata">
34 http://purl.org/NET/http-errata</a> - HTTP/1.1 Specification Errata
37 <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html">
38 http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html</a> - RFC Errata
41 <a href="http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC">
42 http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC</a> - A pre-compiled list
47 <div class="warning"><h3>Notice</h3>
48 <p>This document is not yet complete.</p>
52 <div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></li>
53 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></li>
54 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authentication">Authentication</a></li>
55 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></li>
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59 <h2><a name="http_recommendations" id="http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></h2>
61 <p>Regardless of what modules are compiled and used, Apache as a
62 basic web server complies with the following IETF recommendations:</p>
65 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a>
68 <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level
69 protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed,
70 collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This documents
73 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC 2616</a>
74 (Standards Track)</dt>
76 <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an
77 application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative,
78 hypermedia information systems. This documents HTTP/1.1.</dd>
80 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a>
81 (Standards Track)</dt>
83 <dd>A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of
84 characters for identifying an abstract or physical resource.</dd>
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89 <h2><a name="html_recommendations" id="html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></h2>
91 <p>Regarding the Hypertext Markup Language, Apache complies with
92 the following IETF and W3C recommendations:</p>
95 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt">RFC 2854</a>
98 <dd>This document summarizes the history of HTML development,
99 and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant
100 W3C recommendations.</dd>
102 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401">HTML 4.01 Specification</a>
103 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html4-updates/errata">Errata</a>)
106 <dd>This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML),
107 the publishing language of the World Wide Web. This specification
108 defines HTML 4.01, which is a subversion of HTML 4.</dd>
110 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32">HTML 3.2 Reference
111 Specification</a></dt>
113 <dd>The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language
114 used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one
115 platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents.</dd>
117 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/">XHTML 1.1 -
118 Module-based XHTML</a>
119 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410-errata">Errata</a>)
122 <dd>This Recommendation defines a new XHTML document type
123 that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in
124 Modularization of XHTML.</dd>
126 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1">XHTML 1.0 The
127 Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)</a>
128 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/08/REC-xhtml1-20020801-errata">Errata</a>)
131 <dd>This specification defines the Second Edition of XHTML 1.0,
132 a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and three
133 DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4.</dd>
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138 <h2><a name="authentication" id="authentication">Authentication</a></h2>
140 <p>Concerning the different methods of authentication, Apache
141 follows the following IETF recommendations:</p>
144 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt">RFC 2617</a>
145 (Draft standard)</dt>
147 <dd>"HTTP/1.0", includes the specification for a Basic
148 Access Authentication scheme.</dd>
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154 <h2><a name="language_country_codes" id="language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></h2>
156 <p>The following links document ISO and other language and country
157 code information:</p>
160 <dt><a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/">ISO 639-2</a></dt>
162 <dd>ISO 639 provides two sets of language codes, one as a two-letter
163 code set (639-1) and another as a three-letter code set (this part
164 of ISO 639) for the representation of names of languages.</dd>
166 <dt><a href="http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html">
169 <dd>These pages document the country names (official short names
170 in English) in alphabetical order as given in ISO 3166-1 and the
171 corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code elements.</dd>
173 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt">BCP 47</a>
174 (Best Current Practice),
175 <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt">RFC 3066</a></dt>
177 <dd>This document describes a language tag for use in cases where
178 it is desired to indicate the language used in an information
179 object, how to register values for use in this language tag,
180 and a construct for matching such language tags.</dd>
182 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3282.txt">RFC 3282</a>
183 (Standards Track)</dt>
185 <dd>This document defines a "Content-language:" header, for use in
186 cases where one desires to indicate the language of something that
187 has RFC 822-like headers, like MIME body parts or Web documents,
188 and an "Accept-Language:" header for use in cases where one wishes
189 to indicate one's preferences with regard to language.</dd>
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